After publicly grilling McDonald’s top executive on his own turf, 9-year-old Canadian Hannah Robertson is still looking for answers.

Everyone else, it seems, wants to know who the grade schooler is and, more importantly, what are they feeding the kid who calmly walked to the podium at McDonald’s annual stakeholders meeting to lecture golden arches CEO Don Thompson?

“It would be nice if you stopped trying to trick kids into wanting to eat your food all the time,” Hannah said, without grimace.

“Mr. Thompson, don’t you want kids to be healthy so they can live a long and happy life?” Hannah said, ending her time-limited question at the conference in Oak Brook, Ill.

The native of Kelowna, B.C. and her mother, Kia, a nutritional activist and creator of Today I Ate a Rainbow — an interactive nutrition game for kids — have been bombarded with media requests from newspapers, CNN and the Huffington Post. Even ABC’s Diane Sawyer wants to know who took on fast food’s top boss.

Does she think Thompson answered her questions about McDonald’s marketing to kids?

“Not very well, no,” said Hannah.

Was she nervous? “Yes, very nervous.”

Why did she do it? “I wanted to speak for all those kids and parents who didn’t have the ability to go ahead and speak to the head people of McDonald’s.”

Thompson thanked the 9-year-old for her question, then denied that they sell junk food and added that his kids eat McDonald’s as well as fruits and vegetables.

“I think it’s really great that you want to continue eating more fruits and more vegetables,” Thompson told her.

“We didn’t really feel like he acknowledged anything (Hannah said). He was more, like, we’re not the brand you think we are,” said Robertson, who wants an even playing field for parents trying to promote healthy eating and that.

She and Hannah attended the meeting on behalf of Corporate Accountability International, whose members hold McDonald’s stock, allowing the group to bring their “Value (the) Meal” campaign to the company’s top brass.

The campaign targeted blogging moms who were against marketing fast foods to children. That led them to Kia and Hannah’s videos, showing the 9-year-old making kale chips and vegetable smoothies.

The goal is to fight childhood obesity, which campaign director Sara Deon said is driven by fast food diets.

“This is the first generation with life expectancy shorter than their parents,” Deon said. “Marketing is playing a really large role in driving that epidemic … (McDonald’s) wrote the playbook on marketing junk food to kids.”

It’s an issue that won’t go away for the fast food giant. It is a key element in Michelle Obama’s ongoing campaign to fight childhood obesity.

And even as McDonald’s has made some moves to better its menu offerings in recent years, it’s increasingly getting bombarded by activists — and now, their children — to do more.

Several other activists also spoke out at the shareholders meeting, prodding McDonald’s to do more about offering healthy items.

Hannah, who says her favourite food is Brussels sprouts, was asked if she’d do it again.

“Yeah, definitely. I’d do that any day,” Hannah said.

With files from Star wire services

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